Not many wives would react to their husbands being shot by crying? Has he.... met a human before?

Thank you. I would be so grateful if my story would help just one person. 

Thank you. Yes, I am very, very glad that I got out when I did. And it taught me some valuable lessons, tho it was definitely learning the hard way.

This narrative that it is the job of women & girls to “fix” or rescue disturbed men & boys runs deep in our society, and it needs to stop.

Absolutely. I chalked it up to being young & so, so dumb. I did learn from it tho & took no shit from ppl from that point on. I used to give ppl waaaaayyyy too many chances. Not just significant others, either.

From the ages of 16 to 21, I was deeply in love with someone who had mental health issues. The issues got worse over the years. At first, he did things like drink, drive, & wrap the brand new car his folks had just bought him around a tree (they bought him a new one before he even got his license back, btw) at age 16. …

I was born in 1983. I read an article the other day & apparently those born between 1983 & 1989 (I think, not real clear on cut off date) are a “micro generation” & they’re calling us Xennials.

I had to stop reading the comments over at HuffPo about this because they were rage inducing. HuffPo! A liberal site. But it appears that even “progressive” dudes (and some women) don’t think it was the time or place for anyone to be asking this asswipe about the allegations. Guess I forgot we’re supposed to look the…

Ugh. How terrifying would it be to be privy to men’s inner-most thoughts? No thanks.

I think you’re getting stuck on the harassment part of sexual harassment. The definition of harassment is “aggressive pressure or intimidation.” It is not defined by repeat propositions. It does not need to happen more than once to be classified as harassment. OF COURSE asking a woman with whom you are not in any sort…

Every time stories like these come out, the accused utters some version of, “Yes, I did wrong by pursuing relationships with women I work with and I’m sorry if that hurt or offended them.” Implicit in this is that they didn’t REALLY harass anyone, they were just hitting on co-workers, employees, or colleagues and the…

That’s great & all, but was that Teddy with her? I couldn’t tell. I love me some James Marsden.

I tried to watch Doctor Who once. Started with the first episode & made it halfway through. I found it incredibly boring.

And I’m not sure if you didn’t read in my comment where I said I AGREE that is her body & she SHOULD be able to do whatever she wants with it, regardless of her reasons.

I have a question, & please don’t take this the wrong way & feel free to tell me to mind my own business.

I don’t remember if it’s the same in the book, but in the show, handmaids are chosen precisely because they are still fertile. In that realm, fertility has dropped drastically & handmaids are the relatively few who can still have babies.

So....when can expect the male sex robot that doesn’t leave his socks laying around, doesn’t burp or fart, always stays hard, & never says no?

No, not all men view their female relatives as property, but ENOUGH men do that it causes widespread societal issues. It’s baked into our culture. A father “gives” the bride to her new husband. A woman is still largely expected to take her husband’s last name. Father’s will fiercely (sometimes creepily) defend their…

“ But I’m more interested in finding  the cause of the disconnect as to why it matters if a woman is related in some close personal way to the man when it comes to whether or not he’ll defend her and stomp some dipshit’s head into a curb or he’ll laugh gleefully and pass the pictures/videos/rumors around to others…

It seems strange to me parents are expected to monitor their children in every other situation, except the internet. People expect a parent to control an unruly child in a restaurant for instance. Or when a kid shoots up a school, you hear, “How could his parents not know he had guns? How could they have missed the…